12 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., The author compiled restaurant sales and unit count estimates for 155 restaurant chains during 1981 through 1998. Unit-level sales and advertising expenditures were calculated by averaging annual system-wide totals by the number of units in operation during the year. Findings supported hypotheses that national advertising does not provide a positive return to advertising for many chain units and a larger proportion of chains exhibit a positive return to advertising at the system level than at the unit level.
Martinez, Steve (author), Hand, Michael (author), Da Pra, Michelle (author), Pollack, Susan (author), Ralston, Katherine (author), Smith, Travis (author), Vogel, Stephen (author), Clark, Shellye (author), Lohr, Luanne (author), Low, Sarah (author), and Newman, Constance (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2010-05
Published:
USA: Economic Research Service, U.S Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10861
Notes:
Printed results of related research (Appendices A and B)retained in ACDC., Economic Research Report Number 97. Online via University of Illinois Extension. 87 pages.
5 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, "High-end retailers are counting on us to spend more money on our kitchens - even as we spend less time in them."
